William Gentile

Additional Positions at AU

Bill Gentile is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. He is an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker at American University, where he brings 30 years of field experience and professional contacts to the next generation of communicators. In 2008, Gentile traveled with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU) in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province. The film he produced and shot, Afghanistan: The Forgotten War, was broadcast by NOW on PBS. Later in the year he shot and produced a story on America’s nursing shortage, also broadcast on PBS. In December C-SPAN broadcast, The White House: Inside America’s Most Famous Home, on which he worked as Documentary Consultant. Gentile teaches Photojournalism, Foreign Correspondence and Backpack Documentary.

Media Appearances

NOW on PBS story, "Afghanistan: The Forgotten War," is basis of major article on counter-insurgency in the September 2008 edition of CQResearcher.

Review in the August edition of Yoga Journal, regarded as the most authoritative publication of its genre, called my film, Underground Yoga, an experience “not to be missed by beginners exploring different yoga schools or seasoned practitioners.”

Delivered presentation on insurgency/counterinsurgency at special course on the "Military and the Media" for the School of International Studies at the Inter-American Defense College in Washington, DC.

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

“Nurses Needed” and “Afghanistan: The Forgotten War,” stories done for NOW on PBS, named Number 1 and Number 3, respectively, as the top stories broadcast by NOW in 2008. www.pbs.org/now/shows/442/index.html